Kareena Kapoor says she’s ‘done’ with the Bollywood rat race, believes she wouldn’t have survived competition had she started out now

Actor Kareena Kapoor Khan declared that she is no longer interested in participating in the Bollywood rat race. In an interview with the Dirty magazine, she said that she would’ve probably given up had she been a part of the current generation of heroines. Kareena, who most recently starred in the thriller Jaane Jaan, said that she wants to be ‘the only mainstream actor who has the confidence’ to do unconventional roles and embrace her blemishes.

She said, “Everyone else still wants to look perfect, hot, amazing, this, that. But I now feel that times have changed, people are ready to accept new things. And they have to accept me like this, exactly the way I am. They have to.” Remarking about the industry these days, “Now especially, actors have to keep saying something or the other. I can’t. I just cut off. Otherwise I wouldn’t have lasted this long, I would have just have wilted in this competition, this pressure, the comparison of this look and that look, now so-and-so’s on the rise and I have to look young, so-and-so is doing this or that brand or is a global face. I can’t. I’m done.”

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Kareena also said that she is no longer interested in being seen at big Bollywood parties and making high-profile friends. “I’m very attached to my family, my kids, my husband, my five friends. That’s it. That’s my life. I need my people. My spot boy has been with me from my first shot. People who come into my world, I don’t let them go and they don’t leave. That’s why I’m not at every single party. I don’t feel the need to be doing that. Being at parties, making friends, socialising. I don’t want to,” she said, adding that she must’ve done something right to be in conversation even today. “I’ve still got it, I’m still hot,” she said.

Kareena made her debut over 20 years ago, and after a brief sabbatical following the birth of her second child, she has taken a more unconventional path. After starring alongside Aamir Khan in Laal Singh Chaddha, she led Jaane Jaan by Sujoy Ghosh, and The Buckingham Murders by Hansal Mehta. The film will open in limited release before debuting on streaming.

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